: Fri Apr 17, 2009 7:39 am  

mwildcats wrote: Im sorry but ... http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/n ... 5178458.jp Excellent news. Best of luck.

mwildcats wrote: Im sorry but ... http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/n ... 5178458.jp Excellent news. Best of luck.

: Fri Apr 17, 2009 7:59 am  

Sandal Wild Cat wrote:

Stanley is well and truly red, white and blue,

Sorry, thought the proposed site was near the M62 where the pit used to be ie on the back road to Methley (old home of Castleford RUFC)

: Fri Apr 17, 2009 8:11 am  

smoking monkey wrote:

Sorry, thought the proposed site was near the M62 where the pit used to be ie on the back road to Methley (old home of Castleford RUFC)

It is, but unlike Normanton which is 50/50 Stanley is Wakey - however it is as close to Cas as you can otherwise get.

: Fri Apr 17, 2009 8:13 am  

smoking monkey wrote:

I sense the 'race' to a new stadium may, for the timebeing at least, have swung in Wakey's favour and good luck to 'em because there is no other way to a renewed license for them. Despite recent comparitive success on the playing field their crowds remain unsatisfactory so a move from Belle Vue is a last throw of the dice attendance-wise.

Cas, on the other hand, can fill the Jungle with a half decent side (currently we're not even a quarter decent at home). While a new stadium is the ideal and would increase our commercial capacity I understand that as far as SL criteria are concerned the Jungle could be made compliant if we had to resort to a plan B.

As regards the proposed Newmarket site, at first glance one could be forgiven for thinking a shared venue is back on the cards; isn't it closer to where Cas RU reserves play than to where Wakey currently play?

Why, last years average was over 8000, how is that unsatisfactory it was about 1000 less than you. The peddling of myth continue

[tb]

: Fri Apr 17, 2009 8:18 am  

smoking monkey wrote:

I sense the 'race' to a new stadium may, for the timebeing at least, have swung in Wakey's favour

You mean they're about where we were two years ago: on the starting block?

Good news for them, after the fiasco of Thorpe Park, but let's not get over excited

: Fri Apr 17, 2009 8:41 am  

smoking monkey wrote:

I sense the 'race' to a new stadium may, for the timebeing at least, have swung in Wakey's favour...

I don't think it has yet. Oh I know all about "we're going to do this and that" - I've been hearing it from Cas for long enough - but at this point in time Wakey are still unclear as to funding, don't have planning permission and can't even give an impression of what it might look like. I think you undersell Cas' progress if you think an initial agreement on a bit of land near a motorway somehow rockets a club past where we are. Perhaps there's a bit more substance in the WE today? I don't know as it doesn't sell very well down here.

smoking monkey wrote:

and good luck to 'em because there is no other way to a renewed license for them.

Agreed, but I'd add that it's as true for Cas as it is for Wakey.

smoking monkey wrote:

Despite recent comparitive success on the playing field their crowds remain unsatisfactory so a move from Belle Vue is a last throw of the dice attendance-wise.

We've been to Belle Vue. We know why nobody wants to go there.

smoking monkey wrote:

As regards the proposed Newmarket site, at first glance one could be forgiven for thinking a shared venue is back on the cards; isn't it closer to where Cas RU reserves play than to where Wakey currently play?

Can't see it myself. There aren't that many stadium sized areas of prime building land in the city and Wakey's options have become pretty slender. Had it been somewhere like Normy I might have had a different view (and sure I'd have preferred them to sod off to Durkar or Ossett ) but there's nothing overly sinister about Stanley.

: Fri Apr 17, 2009 8:51 am  

vastman wrote: Why, last years average was over 8000, how is that unsatisfactory it was about 1000 less than you. The peddling of myth continue Thats a very good argument Vasty, except for the small fact that its a load of crap!http://www.sportinglife.com/rugbyleague/news/story_get.cgi?STORY_NAME=rleague/09/01/30/RUGBYL_Super_Guide.htmlLast years average attendance for Wakefield was 7000. Why let facts fet in the way eh?

vastman wrote: Why, last years average was over 8000, how is that unsatisfactory it was about 1000 less than you. The peddling of myth continue Thats a very good argument Vasty, except for the small fact that its a load of crap!http://www.sportinglife.com/rugbyleague/news/story_get.cgi?STORY_NAME=rleague/09/01/30/RUGBYL_Super_Guide.htmlLast years average attendance for Wakefield was 7000. Why let facts fet in the way eh?

: Fri Apr 17, 2009 8:58 am  

Therailwayendisuponus. wrote: Thats a very good argument Vasty, except for the small fact that its a load of crap!http://www.sportinglife.com/rugbyleague/news/story_get.cgi?STORY_NAME=rleague/09/01/30/RUGBYL_Super_Guide.htmlLast years average attendance for Wakefield was 7000. Why let facts fet in the way eh? you must be worried if we are going back to the whole attendance argument!!! Imagine what our team will be like when we have bigger crowds and more money...........we are doing quite well at the moment with our 'crap' support!!!! Cheers for your good wishes though!

Therailwayendisuponus. wrote: Thats a very good argument Vasty, except for the small fact that its a load of crap!http://www.sportinglife.com/rugbyleague/news/story_get.cgi?STORY_NAME=rleague/09/01/30/RUGBYL_Super_Guide.htmlLast years average attendance for Wakefield was 7000. Why let facts fet in the way eh? you must be worried if we are going back to the whole attendance argument!!! Imagine what our team will be like when we have bigger crowds and more money...........we are doing quite well at the moment with our 'crap' support!!!! Cheers for your good wishes though!

: Fri Apr 17, 2009 9:07 am  

SimonBarrett wrote:

you must be worried if we are going back to the whole attendance argument!!!

Imagine what our team will be like when we have bigger crowds and more money...........we are doing quite well at the moment with our 'crap' support!!!!

Cheers for your good wishes though!

Didn't realise there was an "attendance argument"
(i.e. what's there to argue about?)

We've both recently played the Bulls at home - check the figures - end of debate.


... oh, unless we move onto the hilarious recent CC game against a competitive NL1 side (Cas would get double that against an amateur side).

On the ground topic - fair play to you - at the moment there seems to be more happening than there is with us - but as already stated, you are approximately 2 years behind us - so anything we do before then is a bonus.

: Fri Apr 17, 2009 9:09 am  

SimonBarrett wrote:

you must be worried if we are going back to the whole attendance argument!!!

Imagine what our team will be like when we have bigger crowds and more money...........we are doing quite well at the moment with our 'crap' support!!!!

Cheers for your good wishes though!

Not at all unlike some fans my only concerns are for Cas, I coudln't give two hoots what other clubs are doing. I personally hope Wakie get their new ground, they are after all a local team with loads of history and I love RL as a whole.

Also, if you care to read the previous posts it wasn't me that brought up attendances, it was Vastman. I merely pointed out that as usual his post was a fabrication.